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TIL when three people tried to sell Coca Cola secrets (including a sample new product) to Pepsi in 2006, Pepsi informed Coke and the FBI. Later arrests were made in a sting operation.

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oRwZr TIL a study tested 23 human testes & 47 pet dog testes and found microplastics in every sample. The human testicles had a plastic concentration almost three times higher than that found in the dog testes: 330 micrograms per gram of tissue compared with 123 micrograms.
Ey4X TIL that some scientists have observed a presentiment effect - where our body, heart rate, pupil dilation, seems to anticipate events like danger and reacts 1-10 seconds earlier to the event actually happening.
KO556 TIL that during the second Vatican Council, a Cardinal from Belgium shouted "Why are we even discussing the future of the Church when half the Church is not even here?" Referring to the lack of women religious on the Council. 23 women were then appointed as auditors
7r0o7 TIL that a TV movie about nuclear war called The Day After (1983), starring Steve Guttenberg and Jon Lithgow, may have prevented nuclear war. When Ronald Reagan wrote about it he said it left him "greatly depressed". This lead to the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987.
6EoLW TIL Steven Spielberg's father, Arnold Spielberg, traveled to Moscow as part of a delegation of electrical engineers from Phoenix. The trip coincided with an incident that is the subject of Steven Spielberg's 2015 film "Bridge of Spies." He is also still alive today at 103 years old.